Spelunking the places where files are not
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Sat Mar 6 19:20:56 CST 2021
On 3/5/21 6:41 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
>
> After thinking about disk imaging tools like Greaseweasel,
> I started thinking about tools that would grab and examine the unused
> portions of disks.
The data forensics folks are at least 20 years ahead of you, John!
They're interested in *everything* on disk, active or not.
More than 30 years ago, I posted a utility for MSDOS floppies called
"SEEJUNK". It was very revealing what could be found on manufacturers'
disks. To be fair, I also wrote a companion utility to clean the stuff
out called PRUNE.
It wasn't long after that when vendors were made aware of the issue and
took action fast.
--Chuck
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